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The Logistics of Fidget Spinners: Amazon vs Alibaba

Freightos

Just this April, Credit Suisse reported that over 8,600 brick-and-mortar stores may shutter their doors in 2017. Look no further than 2017’s spinner craze, with over 200 million sold after their February debut. Global sourcing, importing, and sales power has shifted from large retailers to small businesses worldwide. In seconds.

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Procurement Leaders ’17: Supplier enabled innovation is a foundation for procurement’s strategic repositioning

NC State SCRC

I had the opportunity to sit in on a number of sessions at Procurement Leaders American Congress 2017 in Miami this week. They have also split out innovation sourcing teams, in consumer innovationto drive collaborations to facilitate broad-based innovation opportunities. Cost savings were on average 4.5%

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Flatbed Rates and Ratios at Record Highs

DAT Solutions

May 2017: $2.10 Source: DAT RateView. Jacksonville, FL market to Miami, FL market. #17. Auto sales have dipped after hitting their peak in the fall of 2017, but they're still a major source of flatbed demand to transport raw materials and parts, as well as finished goods. Source: Macrotrends. Automotive.

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Top 15 Biggest 3PLs in the US - 2017

Material Handling & Logistics

DB Schenker offers land transport, air and ocean freight, as well as comprehensive logistics solutions and global supply chain management services from a single source. Media Caption. CEVA Logistics (The Americas). Privacy Settings. anonymous user. DataTable subpages. Media Image. transactionID. 0ff3bbd4-0831-42fe-a19d-94d4d0a04e28.

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36 innovative companies re-inventing and rethinking supply chain and logistics

6 River Systems

Strategies include sourcing more items directly from manufacturers to improve margins, SKU rationalization and space reduction, “show more carry less” and assisted-store ordering. As of mid-2017, 80% of the company’s shipments out of its warehouse were going to areas other than California and New York.

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Get Your Supply Chain Back on Track in the Wake of the Hurricanes

Material Handling & Logistics

The 2017 hurricane season wreaked unprecedented damage and destruction on the southern United States and Caribbean, with three catastrophic category 4 and 5 storms occurring within a single month. Companies have an even smaller margin of error than usual entering peak season, due to the ripple effect of the recent hurricanes.

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Brewery Marketing: 9 Strategies to Grow Brewery Sales

Unleashed

His articles feature in many publications including the Miami Herald, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and even Stuff.co.nz. The hosting brewery undertakes most of the responsibilities for the brew day: sourcing ingredients, taking on the actual brewing and managing the packaging and label design. US beer influencer. Josh has 12.8